Packer Contract Job Trends in England

Hashicorp Packer
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Packer skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 576 472 517
Rank change year-on-year -104 +45 +15
Contract jobs citing Packer 41 38 44
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.092% 0.14% 0.12%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.68% 0.91% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 30 34
10th Percentile £400 £414 £456
25th Percentile £500 £435 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £561 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +4.42% -14.00%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £649
90th Percentile £679 £622 £926
UK median daily rate £525 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.05% -12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £54.37 - -
Median hourly rate £58.74 - -
75th Percentile £63.10 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £58.74 - -

All Systems Management Skills
England

Packer falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,994 4,163 4,717
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.48% 15.60% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,126 2,769 3,380
10th Percentile £319 £302 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.98% -2.38% -8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £515 £510 £515
% change year-on-year +0.98% -0.97% -6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 46 95
10th Percentile £20.09 £20.13 £16.47
25th Percentile £31.25 £26.45 £21.29
Median hourly rate £62.50 £48.50 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.87% +53.97% -44.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £63.40 £49.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.35 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% -7.69% -43.48%

Packer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Packer relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Packer job vacancy trend in England

Packer
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Packer

Packer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Packer in England over the 6 months to 8 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Packer in England

Packer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Packer within the England region over the 6 months to 8 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -75 21 £650 +13.04% 7
North of England -74 9 £513 +20.59% 4
Yorkshire - 4 £513 -
North East -36 3 £500 +24.22% 1
South East -66 3 £615 +41.38% 2
North West -48 2 £575 -4.17% 3
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £400 -
Packer
UK

Packer
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.32%) Confluence
1 3 (7.32%) nginx
2 2 (4.88%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (2.44%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (56.10%) AWS
2 17 (41.46%) Azure
2 17 (41.46%) GitHub
3 11 (26.83%) Amazon EC2
3 11 (26.83%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) GitHub Actions
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 7 (17.07%) Amazon S3
5 7 (17.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (14.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (14.63%) Azure AKS
7 5 (12.20%) Amazon EKS
7 5 (12.20%) AWS KMS
7 5 (12.20%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (12.20%) Serverless
8 4 (9.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (9.76%) AWS Step Functions
8 4 (9.76%) Datadog
9 3 (7.32%) Entra ID
10 2 (4.88%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Firewall
2 6 (14.63%) DNS
3 4 (9.76%) WAN
4 3 (7.32%) DHCP
4 3 (7.32%) PCoIP
4 3 (7.32%) SSL
5 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (4.88%) VPN
6 1 (2.44%) HTTP
6 1 (2.44%) Network Security
6 1 (2.44%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.44%) Redis
1 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) GitLab
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 8 (19.51%) Git
3 7 (17.07%) JIRA
4 1 (2.44%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (21.95%) Finance
2 6 (14.63%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 21 (51.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (24.39%) Senior
3 9 (21.95%) Cloud Engineer
4 8 (19.51%) Senior DevOps
4 8 (19.51%) Senior DevOps Engineer
5 7 (17.07%) AWS Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Azure Engineer
6 6 (14.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps
7 5 (12.20%) AWS DevOps Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (9.76%) Network Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 3 (7.32%) Lead
10 2 (4.88%) Lead DevOps
10 2 (4.88%) Lead DevOps Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Linux Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineer
10 2 (4.88%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (7.32%) OpenGL
2 3 (7.32%) Qt
3 1 (2.44%) cloud-init
3 1 (2.44%) Kafka
3 1 (2.44%) Keycloak
3 1 (2.44%) Middleware
3 1 (2.44%) OpenID
3 1 (2.44%) SAML
3 1 (2.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.20%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (12.20%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.32%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.32%) CUDA
2 3 (7.32%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.88%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.44%) CMDB
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
4 1 (2.44%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (63.41%) Linux
2 20 (48.78%) Windows
3 7 (17.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server
4 3 (7.32%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.44%) Unix
5 1 (2.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (75.61%) DevOps
2 29 (70.73%) CI/CD
3 25 (60.98%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (53.66%) Agile
5 13 (31.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (24.39%) Configuration Management
7 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Automation
8 7 (17.07%) Observability
9 6 (14.63%) Containerisation
10 5 (12.20%) Platform Engineering
11 4 (9.76%) High Availability
11 4 (9.76%) Infrastructure Transformation
11 4 (9.76%) SIEM
11 4 (9.76%) Site Reliability Engineering
11 4 (9.76%) Software Testing
11 4 (9.76%) Test Automation
12 3 (7.32%) Coaching
12 3 (7.32%) Infrastructure Management
12 3 (7.32%) Mentoring
12 3 (7.32%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (43.90%) PowerShell
2 13 (31.71%) Bash
3 12 (29.27%) Python
4 5 (12.20%) C#
4 5 (12.20%) SQL
5 3 (7.32%) Groovy
6 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
7 1 (2.44%) Bicep
7 1 (2.44%) C
7 1 (2.44%) Go
Qualifications
1 22 (53.66%) SC Cleared
1 22 (53.66%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.32%) Azure Certification
2 3 (7.32%) CCNA
2 3 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.32%) Degree
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
3 2 (4.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (4.88%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (2.44%) RHCA
4 1 (2.44%) RHCE
4 1 (2.44%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.44%) OpenSCAP
1 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 15 (36.59%) Docker
2 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
3 5 (12.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.88%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (4.88%) Squid
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (4.88%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (2.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 34 (82.93%) Terraform
2 30 (73.17%) Ansible
3 17 (41.46%) Kubernetes
4 4 (9.76%) Consul
4 4 (9.76%) Puppet
5 3 (7.32%) Grafana
5 3 (7.32%) Prometheus
6 2 (4.88%) SCCM
7 1 (2.44%) Argo
7 1 (2.44%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.44%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
7 1 (2.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 7 (17.07%) Dynatrace
2 6 (14.63%) VMware
3 5 (12.20%) Red Hat
4 4 (9.76%) PagerDuty
5 3 (7.32%) NVIDIA
5 3 (7.32%) Trend Micro
6 2 (4.88%) HP
6 2 (4.88%) Leostream
6 2 (4.88%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.88%) Ping Identity
6 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
6 2 (4.88%) Splunk
6 2 (4.88%) Tanium
7 1 (2.44%) Ariba
7 1 (2.44%) Google
7 1 (2.44%) SAP
7 1 (2.44%) Tenable